If you are an online games developer and you feel that going with a publisher is the best solution for you, maybe our experience from the other side of the fence might be useful. This is mainly considering online games pitches, but I guess some of the tips may work for offline projects too.

What has most struck us working for a big publisher evaluating projects, is that being good at pitching can be very different from being a good developer. Good publisher-side Biz dev people should be the ones able to recognize the awesome product that is very badly pitched. However, if you are the pitcher, it’s probably safer to assume that you are developing a good product and that you want to pitch it well.

Disclaimer : this might be quite subjective: if you are a publisher and reading this, we are very interested to get your opinion about it! Read the rest of this entry »